Re: passive, ingressive origins

From: tgpedersen
Message: 38870
Date: 2005-06-22

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "elmeras2000" <jer@...> wrote:
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...>
> wrote:
> >
> > > > Is it further possible to see the suffix -yé/ó- as a
thematic
> > > version
> > > > of the root *ye- "impel, throw"?
> > >
> > > Not for me. I only know that verb as *H1yeH1-: Hitt. iemi 'I
> make'
> > > and Gk. hí:e:mi 'I throw, send' from IE *H1yi-H1yéH1-mi. And
why
> > > would it form only the present aspect?
> > >
> >
> > Which 'it' ?
>
> The auxiliary verb from which you derive the suffix *-ye/o-. Why
is
> it skipped in the aorist?
>

Don't causatives and iteratives have an aorist?


Torsten